[Deutsche Welle] In 2018, the United Nations found that millions of dollars of aid money had been stolen in Uganda. Now Germany has partially stopped its funding in a bid to force Uganda to speed up investigations.

[Daily Maverick] President Cyril Ramaphosa's inauguration, scheduled to coincide with Africa Day on 25 May this year, intends to highlight 'government's commitment to advancing the African agenda and to strengthening ties between South Africa and its neighbours', according to The Presidency. However, the xenophobic outbursts in April a month before the national elections - and the challenges to responding appropriately to the crisis highlights the difficulty of fully integrating this message into government policy.

[East African] East Africa's extremist groups may be widening their influence to the south of the continent, deepening violence in countries such as Mozambique, according to a recent study by a US Defence Department think tank.

Nigeria at one point was becoming the land of optimism; there was this euphoria in the air that made Nigerians giddy and idealistic about Naija. The economy had a renew life from investors and market...

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Prof. Yemi Osinbajo , Nigeria’s acting president has sacked the intelligence boss of the Department State Security (DSS), Lawal Musa Daura for the blockage of the country's National Assembly in Abuja, Nigeria.

Osinbajo the country's vice president made the decision to fire the intelligence chief due to the Tuesday morning blockade of the country’s legislature – the National Assembly, NASS.
Osinbajo acted...

"African Citizens Must Stop Voting for Old Aged Men Above 70yrs Into Leadership" - Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general has blamed poor state of goverance in Africa due old aged men in power. The former UN Boss made the observation in Namibia at the just concluded world changers summit .

His words: “Africa has great values to depend upon, Africa could be independent, but we have too many...

“Let Us Build A Medical Center in Umuoji” - Chief (Dr.) Ide Okoye
At the concluded July 2018 Umuoji convention held in New Jersey USA, the current president general of Umuoji Improvement Union of North America Chief Ide Okoye pushes a bold and ambitious agenda.

Dr. Victor Ide-Okoye - “Ide of Umuoji” “Ichie Idejuogwugwu” called on all Umuoji natives worldwide to rise to the task of building a great and prosperous...

How Nigeria can get back the football squad she had of 1994 through 1996 is part of my worries about the Super Eagles. From the onset, I must confess that I have nearly lost interest in the Nigerian football team. I have not been able to figure out what could be responsible for the decline of the Super Eagles. If not for patriotism and the inborn love for the “Pele’s toy”, I would have stopped watching football matches. To get relief,...

It is said that legends are born once every generation. It is also common knowledge that during a typical rainstorm, every bird seeks shelter from the storm, by settling on a safe branch on a tree for the storm to pass; except for one bird, the Eagle!

In a typical rainstorm, the Eagle uses its powerful wings to begin to soar above the storm, until it ascends above the storm and above other birds of lesser pedigree. The Eagle also...

The World Cup’s most anticipated uniform was finally available for purchase — and now it’s not.
Nigeria’s “Naija” kit has been a pop-culture phenomenon since Nike released the design in February and began
accepting preorders. But the jersey wound up even more popular than the company could have imagined.

Three million preorders for the $90 shirts came in, and Nike stores sold out their retail inventories...

Nigerian prolific and world acclaimed author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will address Harvard University class of 2018, as part of the annual class day celebration on May 23, the day before Harvard’s 367th Commencement.

“Ms. Adichie is a prolific writer whose work has been translated into more than 30 languages. She wrote the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright...